About Me

I think part of the reason for that was growing up in Bryan/College Station and living across the street from the elected District Attorney of Brazos County. I thought everything he did in the course of his job was absolutely fascinating. When I was in college at Texas A & M, I spent two and a half years working for the D.A.’s Office as an academic intern, and in law school, I interned for the Harris County D.A.’s Office, as well.

I graduated from the University of Houston Law Center in 1999 and started work as a prosecutor in August of that year. Over the next nine years, I would try every kind of criminal case from Speeding to Capital Murder on behalf of the State of Texas. At the time, I was relatively certain that I would spend my entire career as a Harris County Assistant District Attorney.

That would change in the aftermath of the Chuck Rosenthal e-mail scandal that hit the media in December of 2007.

For those of you who don’t remember, then-elected District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal found himself in hot water over some some racist, sexist, and overly-personal e-mails that were sent from his county computer. The D.A.’s Office was getting bashed from all directions, and in response to the criticism of the rank-and-file prosecutors, I started an anonymous blog entitled “Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center“. My purpose, back then, was to provide a voice (albeit anonymously) that stood up for the prosecutors who just simply wanted to do their jobs and didn’t deserve the bad press brought to us because of the ongoing scandal.

During the campaign for District Attorney in 2008, I vocally supported my friend and co-worker Kelly Siegler for the position. In the process, I spoke my mind when it came to Kelly’s qualifications and I didn’t pull any punches in criticizing the other candidates for the Office — including the ultimate winner of the race, Pat Lykos.

As it turns out, Lykos didn’t have much of a sense of humor when it came to my criticisms — and I can’t say that I blame her for that. When she won the election, I was fired.

Twice, actually.

Despite the end of my prosecutorial career, my blog lived on and actually found new life as I began my career as a Criminal Defense Attorney. I’ve found over the past two and a half years that I enjoy being on the Defense side every bit as much as I loved being a prosecutor.